Famitsu sales: Week 16, 2022 - (11th Apr - 17th Apr)

[Otter]

PaulPortland said:

Otter said:

This is honestly unrelated and was clearly governing your input on the topic. Lets leave the tit for tat console wars mentality outside of these discussions. 

The only reason why I jumped in to respond is because you said the idea of PS5 selling 200k in a week is a joke because its treadful software sales. PS5 has had weeks where its sold 50k hardware units and had zero software in the top 30. This shows the software charts can't be used to extrapolate what the PS5 could potentially sell in a week with supply able to meet demand. All we know is that demand is higher than supply. A portion of that is obviously scalpers, but at the end of the day famitsu doesn't distinguish between the two. How high it could sell is of course speculation

SO, you see where you fail trying to defend your argument? 

You say, PS5 will sell 200K+ only cause one store says so. But there is not games that make a contrast against the consoles sales or that demand...

Console sales flop = Software sales flop. Where the best sold game is Elden Ring with barely 160K copies. If what you say were true,  we'll see PS5 games keeping at  the top 10, or at least, we'll see ps4 games who people wanted to play in PS5, but they couldn't and furthermore, they must have to play the past version...

So, I really can't see any of your words like some with sense.

PD. OLED no stock issues in Japan? Rly man?

I said software sales can't be used to dismiss that potential and I used the store as evidence that current demand is way higher than supply. If the system can sell 50k with zero titles in the top 30, why would it need to have lots of software sales to manage 200k?

We get console sales, so we don't need to look at the software chart. We could look at software to understand that many PS5's are being resold to surrounding countries (i.e not staying in Japan), but as I said, Famitsu (and any other source) will not distinguish between that and the bottom line is we will see "PS5 has sold X" amount of consoles in Japan for that given week. 

Last edited by Otter - on 23 April 2022